Welp, I'm an idiot. Thanks for pointing it out.

Agreed, absolutely.

You're doing god's work, possibly literally.

I DON'T EITHER

Oh god, I am?

No quota, just thought it was a fun thing on the internet.

Fake answer: I was forced to descend into the depths of Laurel Canyon and come back with its precious sound, gently hidden away from peering eyes and ears.

I used to, but it vanished when I made the GRAND ASCENSION from commenter to staff. (I also lost my flesh body and took up existence in the fabled Crystal Pods of G'rylloth)

For what it's worth, that was more about bad copy editing than actual propaganda. Those are quotes FROM Trump, talking to first responders from the congressional shooting earlier this month. Depressingly plausible, though!

I'm not advertising anything. I had an interesting experience with a game that's at the top of the zeitgeist, it inspired some thoughts about fear and tension in a genre outside of traditional horror games, and I wrote them down. I'm not encouraging anyone to buy PUBG. I'm just writing about why it's interesting to…

The comedian in question, Utkarsh Ambudkar, is in the trailer up there. He's the one positing the idea that Apu isn't so much the problem, as the fact that he's one of the only Indian-American characters on TV.

This isn't a review, and my job isn't to talk about everything the game does that's wrong. (Although I do still get the pudding-building effect from time to time, which is its own kind of surreal horror.) My goal was to write about the game's exceptional skill at building tension and fear, not worry about the hacking…

Yep, and I stand by it. When a developer sets a difficulty as standard or default, there's an assumption that it'll present something close to the platonic play experience. I could have adjusted my difficulty to push myself harder (and did a few times, with the Astral Stars mechanic, in order to explore what they add…

You caught me, I'm a hacker who was paid to hack the game to make you play it with my hacking skills.

The nice thing about Awful Squad is that matches are about half an hour, so you can treat each big stream as four individual installments. They tend to last me at least a couple of nights.

When I play through a game, I try to review what seems like the experience most people will have, at least out of the box. Here, that meant playing on Normal, and trying my best to win every Rite and give my team the best outcome. (There are actually a few points where the game subtly encourages you to throw matches,…

It has both. There are the modifiers (known as Astral Stars) that boost your opponent or weaken your team in specific ways, but there's also a global slider.

You can have a conversation with the dog about whether his mustache is good. It even gives you a choice to say the mustache is bad. In case you want to be a monster.

It turns out he's… something… talking to Turtles? I never watched Entourage.

Not if you count The Xtacles pilot as canon, it didn't.